The biggest accomplice to the crime of corruption, it is said, is our own indifference. It is time to end that indifference.

There is much controversy about Anna Hazare and his Jantar Mantar movement of April 2011, but he has showed emerging India that if the indifference is discarded it is possible to become the change we seek.

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A guitar-playing bureaucrat’s vision has delivered cashless, paperless healthcare to 60 million poor Indians — for Rs. 30. It is the largest such system in the world, but if it is to truly enable an inclusive society, he may need to make himself redundant. Samar Halarnkar reports.

"Give us the Afghan problem, and we'll find a solution. That's the energy we have." Tongue firmly in cheek, the exhilaration real, this was Director General of Labour Welfare and head of the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana, Anil Swarup, at his first meeting with the Hindustan Times at his colonial-era office in Delhi last month.

With an efficient administration and a slew of subsidies, one of India’s smallest states hopes to be the first to conquer poverty in the next five years. But is Sikkim’s model of inclusive growth delivering too much to its citizens? Namita Kohli reports. See graphics | Rural women at work